Susan Grissom is an award-winning mixed media artist, street photographer, independent curator and Visual Storyteller. Working in mixed media, she incorporates gesture, texture, and primitive symbolism. One of her images has been used in a medical journal in an ad campaign with a Swedish advertising agency. Her work is in many private collections in the US,Asia,and Europe.

Susan began with a strong interest in Architectural Preservation and Restoration Arts, and worked in Siena Italy on the Spannocchia Estate, through the Etruscan Foundation with trompe l’oeil mural's, faux marbling and woodgraining.

After Italy, she worked as a special effects painter,working both nationally and internationally in private homes and showhouses in NYC and Greenwich, CT.

She was the Gallery Director and curator at the former Lionheart Gallery for over a decade and curated Art Show Bedford for several years.

She keeps an art studio at Firing Circuits in Norwalk,CT

She is currently working on a collection of Visual Poetry and repurposing materials using recycling to make art.

Artist Residency at South Porch Artist Residency in Summerville, South Carolina in November 2023